Langston belived that poets can express themselves any way they want...
he was not afraid to express how he felt while writing...
he was a optemist...
he saw the world through different points of views...
langston hughes wrote alot of poems...
He finished his college education at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania ...
in Lincoln, Illinois, langston Hughes began writing poetry...
langston Hughes wrote eleven plays...
Langston Hughes died of complications from prostate cancer...
Langston Hughes was a member of an abolitionist family...
His father didn't think he would be able to make a living at writing...
The Negro Speaks of Rivers. would become his most famous poem...
traveled the African coast as far south as Angola at age twenty-one, in summer 1923...
He wrote of the complexities of this experience in several venues...
Hughes joined the assembly of Poetry of the Negro, at the Howard University...
he attend the seminal Mbari African Writers Conference at Makerere University College in June 1962...
Hughes got the idea to assemble an anthology of African writing for US publication...
Hughes received a letter from the lively black-oriented Johannesburg magazine Drum asking if he would serve as one of three judges for a continent-wide short-story contest...
Hughes had a problem placing his work with his longtime publisher Alfred A. Knopf...
Hughes was a committed internationalist throughout his life...
black gays and lesbians embrace Langston Hughes as part of their community...
the NAACP awarded him the Spingarn Medal...
He had known rivers, ditches, dives; had known hustlers, winos, dreamers, and old Black mothers of enormous dignity and strength. He spoke of these things, and others, in 62 major works...
he died on May 22, 1967...
before his 1927 address to the Whitman Foundation, he had published his second book of poems...
("And Blues") are "written after the manner of the Negro folk-songs known as Blues...
The Weary Blues had brought the twenty-four-year-old Hughes national attention, and the reviews were overwhelmingly positive...
It was over the question of his representations of African Americans that readers grew heated...
The Norton Anthology of American Literature and is even missing from The Norton Anthology of African American Literature...
("Glory! Hallelujah!") contains nine of his poems patterned after spirituals, with singers calling out to God...
his parents wer devorced...
he lived with his grandmother till he was 12...
he lived with his mother till the end of highschool...
after he finished college he moved to harlem...
langston hughes published more than 40 books...
he lived till he was sixty five...
One of Hughes' essays showed up in the Nation in 1926, entitled "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"...
It talked about Black writers and poets, "who would surrender racial pride in the name of a false integration,"...
He wrote in an essay that spoke about, younger Negro artists that intend to express their individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame...
- He didn't live with all his parents
- He had a sad childhood
- He was respected by his (white) peers in school
- He thought that being (black) would make life hard for him
- He had a miserable life making money
- He tried to pay for his college money by being a bus boy
- He used his poetry to show himself things like themes in racism
- He went to college in 1925
- He graduated in 1929
- He was a yearbook editor in his senior year of high school
- He did well academicaly
- He had a thing for poetry
- He had his poems edited by W.E.B Du Bois
- He spent six months in paris
- He went to college, started, and then ran out of money so he had to quit
- He lived with his mom
- He had a man named carl van vechten published his volume of verse. hughes's first book the weary blues
- He wrote an essay that won in a crisis literary contest
- He had many publishers enjoy and publish his poems
- he won many prizes for a book on improving race relations
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- Langston belived that poets can express themselves any way they want...
- he was not afraid to express how he felt while writing...
- he was a optemist...
- he saw the world through different points of views...
- langston hughes wrote alot of poems...
- He finished his college education at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania ...
- in Lincoln, Illinois, langston Hughes began writing poetry...
- langston Hughes wrote eleven plays...
- Langston Hughes died of complications from prostate cancer...
- Langston Hughes was a member of an abolitionist family...
- His father didn't think he would be able to make a living at writing...
- The Negro Speaks of Rivers. would become his most famous poem...
- traveled the African coast as far south as Angola at age twenty-one, in summer 1923...
- He wrote of the complexities of this experience in several venues...
- Hughes joined the assembly of Poetry of the Negro, at the Howard University...
- he attend the seminal Mbari African Writers Conference at Makerere University College in June 1962...
- Hughes got the idea to assemble an anthology of African writing for US publication...
- Hughes received a letter from the lively black-oriented Johannesburg magazine Drum asking if he would serve as one of three judges for a continent-wide short-story contest...
- Hughes had a problem placing his work with his longtime publisher Alfred A. Knopf...
- Hughes was a committed internationalist throughout his life...
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- Hughes first published "My People" in 1923...
- black gays and lesbians embrace Langston Hughes as part of their community...
- the NAACP awarded him the Spingarn Medal...
- He had known rivers, ditches, dives; had known hustlers, winos, dreamers, and old Black mothers of enormous dignity and strength. He spoke of these things, and others, in 62 major works...
- he died on May 22, 1967...
- before his 1927 address to the Whitman Foundation, he had published his second book of poems...
- ("And Blues") are "written after the manner of the Negro folk-songs known as Blues...
- The Weary Blues had brought the twenty-four-year-old Hughes national attention, and the reviews were overwhelmingly positive...
- It was over the question of his representations of African Americans that readers grew heated...
- The Norton Anthology of American Literature and is even missing from The Norton Anthology of African American Literature...
- ("Glory! Hallelujah!") contains nine of his poems patterned after spirituals, with singers calling out to God...
- his parents wer devorced...
- he lived with his grandmother till he was 12...
- he lived with his mother till the end of highschool...
- after he finished college he moved to harlem...
- langston hughes published more than 40 books...
- he lived till he was sixty five...
- One of Hughes' essays showed up in the Nation in 1926, entitled "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"...
- It talked about Black writers and poets, "who would surrender racial pride in the name of a false integration,"...
- He wrote in an essay that spoke about, younger Negro artists that intend to express their individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame...
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- Hughes moved more to the center politically during world war two...
- During a year (1932-1933) spent in the Soviet Union he wrote his most radical verse...
- he wrote a play called mullato, based on the twinned themes of miscegenation and parental rejection, that opened on Broadway in 1935...
- Hughes wrote other plays, including comedies such as little ham (1936) and a historical drama, emperor of haiti (1936)...
- Hughes denied that he had ever been a party member, but conceded that some of his radical verse had been "ill-advised"...
- Hughes always remained loyal to the principles he had laid down for the younger black writers...
- He could sometimes be bitter...
- his art is generally overwhelmed by a keen sense of the ideal and by a profound love of humanity, especially "black Americans"...
- he also wrote a commissioned history of the NAACP...
- he wrote a text of a much praised pictorial history of black America...
- his books inspired a musical show, "simply heaven" (1957), that met with some success...
- his love of gospel music led to other some good stage efforts...
- He became very prosperous...
- he always had to work hard for his "measure of prosperity" and sometimes called himself a 'literary sharecropper’ (with a good cause)...
- he broke new ground with verse accented by the discordant nature of the new bebop jazz...
- hughes worked with many people...
- he otained many awards...
- he was a suporter of bisexual & homosexuality...
- he loved writing poems...
- Langston hughes despiesd racism...
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